44CApplication for order for involuntary admission

44C Application for order for involuntary admission (1) As soon as practicable after forming the opinion, the authorised psychiatric practitioner and authorised officer must apply for a Tribunal order for the person's involuntary admission and detention on the grounds of complex cognitive impairment. (2) However, if the person is an involuntary patient admitted on the grounds of mental disturbance (an existing involuntary patient), the application must be made before the date the Tribunal is required to review the patient's admission on those grounds (the review date). (3) The application must: (a) be made in the approved form; and (b) unless the person is an existing involuntary patient, be accompanied by a treatment management plan for the person prepared by the applicants. (4) If the person is an existing involuntary patient: (a) the applicants must, before the hearing, prepare and lodge with the Tribunal a treatment management plan for the person; and (b) the Tribunal must hear the application on or before the review date. Note for section 44C Practice directions issued by the President under section 139 of the NTCAT Act apply to the lodgement of the treatment management plan. In addition, the approved procedures may make further provision in relation to the application process.

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